Stand for reading materials and laptop computers

Abstract

A height-adjustable, tiltable stand for a laptop computer or reading material. The stand contains two side legs, each of which contains an upper surface made of a distal section parallel to the bottom and a proximal section which is at an angle to the distal section. The legs contain a centrally located hole near the upper surface. The top contains a lip for maintaining material on the top when the top is tilted. The top contains a plurality of holes for allowing heat generated by a computer to dissipate. Each side edge of the top contains depending supports having centrally located slots. Tightness controllers made up of a knob, a bolt, and a nut pass through the holes in the legs and the depending support to hold the top to the legs and to allow the top to be tilted on the legs.

What is claimed is:  
     
       1. A stand comprising: 
       A) a flat top section comprising a top surface, a bottom surface, a distal surface, a proximal surface, two side surfaces, a lip on the top surface centered between the two side surfaces, a plurality of holes extending from the top surface to the bottom surface, and two depending supports located medially from the two side surfaces of the flat top section at least a distance equal to the thickness of the legs, wherein each depending support has a slot running through it from the lateral side surface to the medial side surface, the slot being midway between the proximal surface and the distal surface of the flat top section, further wherein each depending support extends from at or near the proximal surface to at or near the distal surface, which depending supports have straight distal surfaces, straight proximal surfaces, straight lateral side surfaces, straight medial side surfaces, and straight bottom surfaces;  
       B) a pair of legs, each leg comprising a bottom surface, a distal surface, a proximal surface, a lateral surface, a medial surface, a proximal top surface and a distal top surface, the distal top surface being parallel to the bottom surface and the proximal and distal top surfaces meet at an apex which is offset from a center located midway between the distal surface and proximal surface such that when the flat top section rests upon the distal top surface, the flat top section is parallel to the bottom surface and when the flat top section rests upon the proximal top surface, the fiat top surface is tilted, and  
       C) a pair of tightness controllers which join the legs to the depending supports.  
     
     
       2. The stand of  claim 1 , wherein: 
       each leg has a hole running through it from the lateral surface to the medial surface, which hole is located on a line midway between the proximal surface and distal surface of the leg.  
     
     
       3. The stand of  claim 2 , wherein: 
       the legs and depending supports are joined together by tightness controllers, each tightness controller comprising a knob having a size and shape as to be readily turned by hand, which knob is fixedly attached to a bolt which has external treads at the end opposite the knob, the external threads of the bolt fit into internal threads of a nut such that when the stand is assembled, each knob is on the lateral side of a depending support and each nut is on the medial side of a leg, the bolt passes through the slot in the depending support and the hole in the legs.